Bing Crosby - Dear Old Donegal lyrics

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It seems like only yesterday<br />

I sailed from out of Cork<br />

A wanderer from Erin's isle<br />

I landed in New York<br />

There wasn't a soul to greet me there<br />

A stranger on your shore<br />

But Irish luck was with me here<br />

And riches came galore<br />

And now that I'm going back again<br />

To dear old Erin's isle<br />

My friends will meet me on the pier<br />

And greet me with a smile<br />

Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot<br />

I've been so long away<br />

But me mother will introduce them all<br />

And this to me will say<br />

<br />

Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy<br />

And here is your sister, Kate<br />

And there's the girl you used to swing<br />

Down by the garden gate<br />

Shake hands with all of the neighbours<br />

And kiss the colleens all<br />

You're as welcome as the flowers in May<br />

To dear old Donnegal<br />

<br />

They'll give a party when I go home<br />

They'll come from near and far<br />

They'll line the roads for miles and miles<br />

With Irish jauntin' cars<br />

The spirits'll flow and we'll be gay<br />

We'll fill your hearts with joy<br />

The piper'll play an Irish reel<br />

To greet the Yankee boy<br />

We'll dance and sing the whole night long<br />

Such fun as never seen<br />

The lads'll be decked in corduroy<br />

The colleens wearin' green<br />

There'll be thousands there that I never saw<br />

I've been so long away<br />

But me mother will introduce them all<br />

And this to me will say<br />

<br />

Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy<br />

And here is your sister, Kate<br />

And there's the girl you used to swing<br />

Down by the garden gate<br />

Shake hands with all of the neighbours<br />

And kiss the colleens all<br />

You're as welcome as the flowers in May<br />

To dear old Donnegal<br />

<br />

Meet Branigan, Fannigan, Milligan, Gilligan<br />

Duffy, McCuffy, Malachy, Mahone<br />

Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly<br />

Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone<br />

Madigan, Cadigan, Lanihan, Flanihan<br />

Fagan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn<br />

Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarty<br />

Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn<br />

<br />

Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy<br />

And here is your sister, Kate<br />

And there's the girl you used to swing<br />

Down by the garden gate<br />

Shake hands with all of the neighbours<br />

And kiss the colleens all<br />

You're as welcome as the flowers in May<br />

To dear old Donnegal<br /><br />